WordNet
v. succeed at easily; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course" [syn: breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sail through, nail]
Usage examples of "sweep through".
The Japanese forces are cut into pockets and isolated as the Domination's heavy armour, mechanized infantry and airmobile forces (including several helicopter-born chiliarchies) sweep through to the Pacific, overrunning all of China and Korea.
There's going to be a Schiopettieri sweep through the town tonight.
I've fought these desert wolves before - an exchange of arrows for awhile, in which the armor of my warriors protects them - then a charge and my squadrons sweep through the loose swarms of the nomads, wheel and sweep back through, scattering them to the four winds.
Nor could she help wishing, once she had watched the mail-coach sweep through a turnpike, that Uncle John had provided the groom not with a horse-pistol, for which there did not seem to be the slightest occasion, but with a yard of tin, that he might have blown up for the pike in that same lordly style.
When the initial sweep through Winston's Welcome Mat had been made, the flotilla would turn and make another sweep back on a north-easterly course to widen the channel for the cruiser and its three merchant ships.
After all the wretched years of war, after the great Normandy landing and the sweep through France, with victory apparently days away, we're back in the blitz!
But Dad wanted something that would sweep through the broadest possible bandwidth, making plenty of racket all the way, but with big spikes every so often.
Nylan moistened his dry lips, finally opening his eyes, then easing back onto the neuronet's top level, where his senses slipped across the screens and inputs that the captain juggled as line two began the sweep through the probing disruption lines cast by the demons.
Bay felt the chill of a terrible apprehension sweep through her plump body.